“They create the conditions they lament then refuse all the viable remedies.” They put shit tons of assault weapons on the streets to justify further militarization of America’s police force, which still hasn’t demonstrated competence or capability of neutralizing mass shooters.
And it’s clearly NOT a well-regulated militia if anyone can possess a firearm without the slightest obligation to prove they don’t plan to use it to kill themselves/others. *No MH provider* can save ANY of us from a person who isn’t acutely committable at the time of possession.
Unfortunately a lot of y’all are still drastically OVERESTIMATING the power & authority of psychiatrists and mental health courts, especially in a gun fetishism state like Texas. I’ve seen guns briefly held by cops but very soon returned to previously suicidal/homicidal patients.
Beyond that, if a patient tells you they have a gun but have no intention of hurting themselves or others with it today, that isn’t a permanent guarantee that those feelings or life circumstances won’t change outside of your office. Who do y’all think is policing all of that? 🧐
If my next visit with said gun-owning patient isn’t until 3 months from now, what fairy godmother do you think is responsible for making sure he/she doesn’t have a bad day and decide to break whatever promises they made to me, everyone else they know and/or their higher power?
I mean… IDK who’s gonna do that for each and every last one of the millions of gun owners who either 1) do have a psychiatric diagnosis, or 2) have never met the criteria (yet), thus would never even end up on the MH radar. It sure as fuck won’t be Greg, Dan, John or Ted though.
“Multiple calls made from classrooms during #Uvalde shooting as police waited in hallway, officials say” | Yet another problem our mental health system can’t fix: cowardly, complicit cops who refuse to protect & serve because they’re outgunned by an AR-15. twitter.com/i/events/15291…
Yes and many thanks for perfectly illustrating why the entire @GOP is blowing unregulated militia gunsmoke up everyone’s asses. Psychiatrists aren’t mind-readers & everyone who sees us ain’t 100% honest 100% of the time. Ban assault weapons NOW & stop scapegoating mental illness.
Oh and btw @Robin1226, we don’t just ask about guns b/c insurance forces us to, it’s a standard preventive medicine & personal/public safety question that PCPs are increasingly asking b/c 1) America has a gun violence epidemic & 2) America has a massive shortage of psychiatrists.
“New polls show a majority of Americans say he has overstepped his presidential authority — and hasn’t done enough to address high prices.” | via @politico #InstabilityInChief #BuyersRemorse #GOPOverreach politico.com/news/2025/02/2…
Much of the reason White “moderates” are so shellshocked about having no quick reprieve from Project 2025 is they’ve historically been able to evade the worst of GOP policy by “swing” voting for divided govt that allows Ds to rescue them from the R trifectas they keep unleashing.
IOW, they create economic chaos by voting GOP in presidential years (to assert their Whiteness) then crawling back to Ds with their tails between their legs at the midterms b/c they desperately need a bailout from GOP austerity/overreach and want their SS, Medicaid & Medicare. 🙃
If anything good comes from this unmitigated disaster & international fucking embarrassment (part II) I hope it’s that folk who never bothered to understand how American government works or why they should give a damn about the social safety net finally learn it from losing it.
Every time I see an MSM clip of them sorrowfully (but unconvincingly) reporting these #TrumpLayoffs & agency closures/takeovers I roll my eyes damn near out of my head b/c WTF members of the press?! Stop pretending there was “no” way to predict this when Y’ALL fanned the flames.
Then there’s the FAFO folk who actually ordered the code red on their own selves b/c they’ve been terminally brainwashed by 60+ yrs of the GOP Southern Strategy to reflexively hate the federal government (even though they need it) b/c of its interventions re: slavery & Jim Crow.
I’m gonna preface this by saying it’s mostly anecdotal but the patients I’m seeing virtually in TX (mostly White, rural/suburban) have been so medically unwell for the last month, primarily upper respiratory and gastrointestinal. Lots of flu, a smattering of COVID and colitis…
At first I was like well yeah it’s winter and cold/flu season plus vaccine refusal is off the charts, so folk aren’t keeping up with COVID boosters or annual flu shots etc., but now that it’s coupled with #InstabilityInChief shuttering public health services & communication... 🥴
And then it got even weirder this week when a patient told me school districts near him were closing in droves and said 650! students were out sick. I googled as soon as the session ended and look: nbcdfw.com/news/local/sch…
Better yet, since we’re reliving the same pathology (and it’s been so long that the original links no longer work), I’m gonna repost all the #InstabilityInChief essays I wrote @dailykos for posterity’s sake…
'He tells it like it is:' The privileged politics of personal insult | via @docrocktex26 dailykos.com/stories/2016/1…
Wake me when the folk who are feigning shock, awe and poutrage about Trump doing all the heinous shit he said he was gonna do direct their complaints to the MSM that propagandized them blind (b/c they wanted to be) and is still enabling/sugarcoating fascism/White supremacy.
I mean this in all sincerity b/c I have yet to see a concerted, large scale effort to boycott or even regulate the legacy media outlets that paved the way for social media outlets to finish off the bamboozlement of the masses they started *centuries* ago. Where’s the revolution?
I repeat, “America incentivizes brainwashing of the White community,” so there’s no amount of scattering to new social media apps that’s gonna stop the newspapers or Big 3 TV from peddling bullshit that trickles down. Speak with your WALLETS and starve White supremacy of GREEN.
Let me address this now (again) b/c folk keep asking: NO I’M STILL NOT opening an account on any other social media platform. Y’all are asking this of a Black, native Texan woman whose entire family tree is Black native Texan. *I don’t flee for the Confederacy’s benefit.*
Y’all can feel free to do what sits right in your spirit but I’m not scared of a damn tweet. I walk around IRL as a Black woman knowing full well that my gracefully unbothered existence in spaces racists don’t want me in is an act of civil disobedience, protest & radicalism.
Not only that but what point is even being proven right now other than a real time illustration of how easy and uncomplicated it was (still is) for certain folk to flee to bluer, “safer” territory for the Confederacy’s benefit while the space they fled becomes more Confederate?